Yield of training exchanges between Europe and Sub-Saharan Africa
| Autor: | A-C Bissek, Bernard Dachy, Gilles Naeije, Yannick Fogang, E.N. Tabah, Alfred K. Njamnshi, Faustin N. Yepnjio, Julius Y. Fonsah, Godwin Y. Tatah, Callixte Kuate |
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| Rok vydání: | 2012 |
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Male Pediatrics medicine.medical_specialty Movement disorders Sub saharan Neurology Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) Pilot Projects medicine.disease_cause Belgium Risk Factors medicine Humans Psychogenic disease Cameroon Prospective Studies Aged Neuroradiology business.industry Public health General Medicine Middle Aged Hospitalization Exact test Female Neurology (clinical) Nervous System Diseases medicine.symptom business |
| Zdroj: | Acta Neurologica Belgica. 113:31-34 |
| ISSN: | 2240-2993 0300-9009 |
| Popis: | Opportunities that allow neurologists-in-training from Western Europe and Sub-Saharan Africa to benefit from exchanges between their respective neurological departments are rare. In a pilot exchange program, we compare the patterns of neurological diseases encountered in neurological wards of public hospitals in Brussels and Yaounde to underline educational benefits. For 5 months the age, sex, mortality, HIV cases and clinical characteristics of admitted patients were prospectively analyzed. Eighty Cameroonian and 105 Belgian patients were classified into the following neurological entities: infectious, vascular, immune-related, epileptic, degenerative, neoplastic, psychogenic and movement disorders. Means and proportions were compared using Student’s test and Fisher’s exact test, respectively. Patients were younger in Yaounde (mean age 45.3 vs. 54.0 years, p = 0.002), but died four times more (23.75 vs. 4.75 % of admissions, p |
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